{"id":2924,"date":"2012-02-08T13:14:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/why-access-matters-read-the-new-brief-on-community-college-demographics-by-aacc\/"},"modified":"2012-02-08T13:14:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:14:24","slug":"why-access-matters-read-the-new-brief-on-community-college-demographics-by-aacc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/why-access-matters-read-the-new-brief-on-community-college-demographics-by-aacc\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why Access Matters&#8221; &#8211; Read the New Brief on Community College Demographics by AACC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aacc.nche.edu\/Publications\/Briefs\/Pages\/pb02062012.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">a new study on community college demographics<\/a> yesterday. The results may surprise you.<\/p>\n<p>From the study&#8217;s executive summary:<\/p>\n<p><em>Between 1993 and 2009, the student body \u2014 as defined by the  distribution, not the number, of students \u2014 on community college campuses  shifted. For instance, students under the age of 18 are increasingly  enrolling in community colleges. While the student body is becoming  increasingly younger, the characteristics of younger students are not  homogenous across all sectors of higher education. Community college  students have a greater proportion of students with various risk factors  when compared to all of higher education.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These colleges also provide access to nearly half of all minority  undergraduate students and more than 40% of undergraduate students  living in poverty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:14:24 +0000 by\u00a0e.bryant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) released a new study on community college demographics yesterday. The results may&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}